Below is a complete list of entries submitted in our poll to find the top five most influential books as voted for by readers of Landscape.
A.G. Tansley; Britain’s Green Mantle |
Anne Whiston Spirn; The Granite Garden- Urban Nature and Human Design |
Anne Whiston Spirn; The Language of Landscape |
Anthony Hiss; The Experience of Place |
Baumeister, N; New Landscape Architecture |
Bernard Rudofsky; Architecture without Architects |
Brian Hackett; Landscape Planning- Introduction to Theory and Practice |
Brian Hackett; Planting Design |
Burns, C. & Kahn, A; Site Matters |
Caroline Stanton; Skye and Lochalsh Landscape Character Assessment |
Charles Jencks; The Architecture of the Jumping Universe |
Christopher Tunnard; Gardens in the Modern Landscape |
Clare Cooper Marcus; People Places: Design Guidelines for Urban Open Space |
Clemens Steenbergen, Gerrit Smienk, Wouter Reh; Architecture & Landscape |
Corner, J; Recovering Landscape |
CS Stein; Towards New towns for America |
Diane Ackerman; A Natural History of the Senses |
Elizabeth B. Kassler; Modern Gardens and the Landscape |
Franz Kafka; The Castle |
Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe; Landscape of Man |
Gordon Cullen; Townscape |
Gordon Cullen; Visions of Urban Design |
Iain Sinclair; Lights out for the Territory |
Ian McHarg; Design with Nature |
Italo Calvino; Invisible Cities |
J. R. R. Tolkien; Lord of the Rings |
James Corner; Recovering Landscape |
James Lovelock; Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth |
Jane Brown; A Garden and Three Houses |
Jane Jacobs; The Death and Life of Great American Cities |
Jared Diamond; Collapse; How Societies choose to Fail or Survive |
Jared Diamond; Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years |
Jim McCluskey; Road form and townscape |
Joe Simpson; Touching the Void |
John Brookes; Room Outside |
John Brookes; The Small Garden |
John Ormsbee Simonds; Landscape Architecture. |
John Ruskin; Modern Paintings |
Jonathan Swift; Gulliver’s Travels |
Juhani Pallasmaa; The Eyes of the Skin |
Kevin Lynch; The Image of the City |
Kevin Whelan, Matthew Stout; The Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape |
Kongjian You; The Art of Survival, Recovering Landscape Architecture |
Lars Gemzoe & Jan Gehl; New City Spaces |
Lawrence Halprin; Cities |
Lawrence Halprin; Process Architecture #4 |
Lucretius; De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) |
Marc Treib; Modern Landscape Architecture: A Critical Review |
Mark A. Benedict & Edward T. McMahon; Green Infrastructure Linking Landscapes and Communities |
Michael Soule; Conservation Biology: The Science of Scarcity and Diversity |
Moore, K; Overlooking the Visual |
Nan Fairbrother; New lives, New Landscapes |
Nicola Garmory, Rachel Tennant and Clare Winsch; Professional Pratice for Landscape Architect’s |
Nigel Dunnett and Noel Kingsbury; Green Roofs and Living Walls |
Oliver Rackham; The History of the Countryside |
Peter Randall-Page and Chris Chapman; Granite Song |
Peter Shepard, Modern Gardens |
Piet Oudolf & Noël Kingsbury; Designing with Plants |
Piet Oudolf & Noël Kingsbury; Planting Design: Gardens in time and space |
Primo Levi; The Periodic Table |
Prof. Carys Swanwick et al; Landscape Character Assessment – Guidance for England and Scotland |
Rachel Carson; Silent Spring |
Rachel Kaplan et al; With People in Mind: The Design and Management of Everyday Nature |
Rebecca Krinke et al; Contemporary landscapes of contemplation |
Reed, P; Groundswell |
Richard Bisgrove; History of the English Garden |
Richard Fortey; The Earth: An Intimate History |
Richard Westmaccott & T. Worthington; New Agricultural Landscapes |
Robert L. Thayer; Gray World, Green Heart |
Robert Roberts; The Classic Slum: Salford in the First Quarter of the Century |
Robert Thayer; Denatured Visions – Landscape and Culture in the 20th Century |
Roland Huntford; The Last Place on Earth |
Sima Eliovson; The Gardens of Burle Marx |
Simon Bell; Landscape; Pattern Perception and Process |
Simon Swaffield; Theory in Landscape Architecture: A Reader |
Steven Pinker; The Language Instinct |
Sylvia Crowe; Tomorrow’s Landscape |
The Courtyard Houses; Jorn Utzon Logbook Vol. 1 |
Theodore D. Walker; Plan Graphics |
Timothy Beatley; Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home and Community in a Global Age |
Urban Motorways Committee; New roads in towns: report of the Urban Motorways Committee to the Secretary of State for the Environment; H.M.S.O |
W. G. Hoskins; The Making of the English Landscape |